Brood Quotes

83 Brood quotes by 73 unique authors

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. — Leo Buscaglia
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all… — George Eliot
Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of… — Richard Sibbes
The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm,… — Kate Chopin
When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure… — Jerome K. Jerome
Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either. — Thomas Head Raddall
The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the… — Eknath Easwaran
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides. — E. M. Forster
One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . .… — Charles Dickens
Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the… — Robinson Jeffers
I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses… — Alexander Smith
We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or… — Chang-Rae Lee
Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence,… — Princess Shikishi
My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which… — James Black
Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life. — Suzanne Farrell
Make certain decisions only once . . . We can make a single decision about certain things that we will incorporate in our lives and… — Spencer W. Kimball
The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not… — Sergei Rachmaninoff
Thoughts mold your features. Thoughts lift your soul heavenward or drag you toward hell. … As nothing reveals character like the company we like and… — David O. McKay
A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which… — Paul Gauguin
One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to… — Andrea Seigel
Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought… — Arthur Helps
Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent… — Samuel Beckett
Expand Thy wings, celestial Dove, brood o'er our nature's night; on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light. — Charles Wesley

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